AndreTelevise

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

People always tend to bounce back to the bigger platform.

How I like to deal with this is to use two or more platforms of the same kind.

Occasionally open Reddit, and occasionally Lemmy. Occasionally checking Fedi, and occasionally going on Twitter.

It may be disorienting at first, but it’s better to get used to going on many websites than sticking to just two.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

IMO, Reddit kept the people who didn’t care about third party apps or the things that made Reddit Reddit years ago, before it turned into generic social media. Everyone who did care, left. And that’s not really a victory.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

Gestures aren’t very convenient if I’m watching videos in full screen mode or when typing on the keyboard. There are many problems with gesture nav in Android, let alone MIUI. It’s not worth keeping the default launcher for this.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

A few things I want to say:

1. Congrats for the successful launch! I hope this project continues to improve.
2. The ads aren’t very intrusive, they’re just banners in-between some posts and I’m fine with that.
3. This app makes using Lemmy more attractive than using Reddit, which means that the goal of moving me far away from Reddit has been accomplished!

Amazing job so far. Here’s to the future of decentralized social media!

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

Sync in my opinion provides the most seamless, Reddit-like experience, so naturally, more people will gravitate towards that

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

There’s a difference between liberal left (which is what a majority of rational, secular people belive in), honest far-left, which is about socialist economics, eat the rich, BLM/anti-racism, anti-cop, gender abolition, human rights, actual anti-colonialism etc. and the kind of “far-left” that is “anti-west”, which isn’t really about honestly discussing these issues, but rather about dividing people, being contrarian to established things that work and make sense, and trying to paint everyone who disagrees even a tiny bit as the scum of humanity. On the other hand, any defederation further enlarges the rift between communities and makes being informed on what others think more cumbersome. Also, they think Beehaw, a place that is supposed to be inclusive, is fascist? I am not sure how it is. It’s mostly left and liberal, really.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

I’ve been on Reddit for 10 years and now I use Reddit very rarely (only when I feel like a community on Reddit is the only place for me to get info about a specific thing). Now I frequent Lemmy (and Kbin) instead for news, discussions and memes.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

I’m in love! Smooth, modern, and simple. One thing to note - the “hue” option for the theme in the settings is not very obvious at first or comfortable. We need some kind of visible color pallete or some squares with color options.

Also, Ctrl+Enter should allow me to post my reply immediately, but it doesn’t.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

Stremio has been useless until I got fiber internet. Now it’s my preferred way to watch stuff.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

The thing with this is that after shutting down Mixer, Microsoft started suggesting people to stream on Facebook Live instead. I’m still not sure how that partnership lead to the trademark of Mixer being given to Facebook Inc. at the time (I assume, before they became Meta).

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn’t, which shows that there’s really no management in all of this.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

Using two different browsers should be the norm imo. One for comfort, performance and compatibility, like Chrome, Edge or Opera, and the other one for privacy, like Firefox, UGC, Tor, DDG, etc.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

I already replaced my search engine, my social media and my Reddit.

Do you want me to replace my email too, Google?

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

The two things that matter when choosing a distro - package managers and desktop environment/window manager. And even then, universal package managers like Flatpak, Snap and AppImage can provide a substitute for the package managers.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

both are up, but fmhy is down, maybe forever

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

I’m only going there to help out fellow bronies (the MLP sub is going strong with their pixelart, but they did lock new posts until r/Place is over), and to see the protest art.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

I am not useng Brave much as of recently, except for maybe mobile because of UWP apps. Firefox has become really fast in recent versions, and even when I have 8 extensions on, it still opens pages in a breeze. And it is more customizable than most of the other browsers. I do however like DDG Browser’s minimalism and use of WebKit, so if I want a very minimal browser with barely any extras whatsoever that respects my privacy, I go to DDG Browser.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

Used Mastodon for a bit a few years ago, but it wasn’t popular enough so I didn’t get much out of it at the time. Now, I basically prefer Mastodon and Calckey to Twitter, unless I want to see what my Twitter mutuals are doing, most of which are artists.

AndreTelevise, 10 months ago

There is an inherent problem with microblogging sites. They don’t help you understand anything. All they do is give you small blips of information, text, memes, short videos, drawings, pictures. You can’t state your full opinion and it is hard to be noticed or seen because most people don’t bother getting into any topic in detail. On the other hand, social news plafrorms - like Lemmy and Kbin and even Reddit - encourage dialogue and discourage toxicity.

Microblogging has changed. Now, I much prefer talking about current events on a social news platform than on a microblogging platform. Right now microblogging sites are good for art or talking about general interests and things in your day-to-day life, maybe getting some news out of them (if the algorithm wants you to because algorithms suck when it comes to news, especially in a divided society such as this one), but not much more. Plus, the “balkanization” of microblogging with services like Tumblr, Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon makes it so that you divert attention to different things in different places, while things like the threadiverse can be a hub for pretty much everything because information doesn’t flow as fast as on microblogging sites so you don’t lose attention very quickly.

I understood the problems with attention span that plague Twitter long before the big switchover was even a thought, it’s just that I didn’t think of it too much back then.

AndreTelevise, 11 months ago

Gfycat was innovative for its time. Rest in peace…

AndreTelevise, 11 months ago

Or for web-based clients there’s Piped and Invidious.

AndreTelevise, 11 months ago

Twitter is surviving because of its addicts. Now, it’s likely to drop its userbase significantly. Plus, Musk restricting people who aren’t logged in from seeing anything makes the website practically irrelevant, and if this is sustained, Twitter will die in a span of months, if not weeks.

AndreTelevise, 11 months ago

Is there a better option than Pinterest? Yandex Images? Really?

AndreTelevise, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

It’s faster now, and we finally have buttons for rich text features! Congratulations!

Update: upvotes are a bit broken and weird right now, I need to refresh every time to see that I upvoted. But that’s really the only issue I see right now.

AndreTelevise, 11 months ago

And the web app WefWef which replicates the Apollo experience pretty well and runs on any device: wefwef.app